A touch of eccentricity: SoCal's San Marcos Growers specializes in a diverse plant palette with a flair for the unusual

摘要

Traipsing through the immense assortment ofplants at San Marcos Growers in Santa Bar-bara, Calif., is quite the adventure. With some 1,700 varieties of plants, there are treasures from far-away places such as Australia, South Africa, and Chile, as well as native California varieties, but not your run-of-the-mill selections. The nursery'scollection includes interesting textures, shapes and colors.SMG sells plants that are appropriate to California's dry summer and wet winter Mediterranean climate, said general manager Randy Baldwin.